Top Three Free E-mail Services
If you’re looking for an email service provider, you might be overwhelmed by all of the choices you have to sort through. They might all seem the same and have similar features, but some are better than others.
Let’s start with # 3:
Microsoft Live Hotmail
Microsoft has been providing e-mail for many, many years. It has evolved a bit into a 5 GB storage powerhouse. It provides you with good amount of security, but doesn’t have the best spam filtering service. In my experience, a good amount of spam gets through the filter and into your inbox. On the plus side, you can chat with your MSN messenger friends directly from Hotmail, making live conversations that much faster.
# 2:
Yahoo! Mail
Yahoo! has a reputation for keeping the status quo on e-mail although in the past few years they’ve been trying to reverse that thinking. You can now chat with your Yahoo! contacts as well as attach files as large as 100MB with the built in application for drop.io. Its spam filtering is as good as you could hope for coming from a free service.
#1:
Gmail
Google is the reigning king of webapps. Gmail has everything built right into it. Unlimited storage, the ability to create, edit, find, publish, and save documents all within your Google account. It’s spam filtering is the best I’ve seen of any service, paid or free. You can even have shared calendars, get your e-mail on your phone, and a whole host of other options. This service will not leave you wanting anything else as it is all there for you, waiting for you to launch it.
